April 9, 2020
Under such critical surroundings, powder-based food allows the delivery of essential nutritional value in the form of meals, shakes and food supplements. This way, it is possible to feed people in a massive manner, fast and safely.
As the demonstrations and studies suggests, this method could be more helpful in hospitals, elderly homes or orphanages, large canteens, where it is decisive to minimize the risk of contagion or contamination from suppliers, cooks or other personnel handling food stuff liable to spread of the virus or any disease. These are the people for whom it is essential to access healthy food quickly, efficiently, safely.
Powder-based food is not only related to subjective nutritional supplements but rather covers large segments of the food industry. Approximately 40 per cent of the food that we consume every day viz… bread, coffee, juice, cheese, ice cream, vegan milk, baby formula, spices, sweeteners, meat substitutes – are just a few examples of the many powder-based foods we all know about.
Blendhub, a global company that specializes in the development, production and distribution of powder-based foods and ingredients, has offered its support and resources and is urging public institutions and the food industry to share the combined knowledge and experiences, to work together and guarantee the supply of primary nutrition across the geographies which are most affected by Covid-19.